My' Self on Camera : First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China - Brossura

Kiki Tianqi Yu

 
9781474474122: My' Self on Camera : First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China
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ISBN 10: 1474474128 ISBN 13: 9781474474122
Casa editrice: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

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Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China’s van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China’s iGeneration (2014). She is Lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.

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‘Understanding first person filmmaking in China as always already political, this study breaks new ground in considering the particularities of this personal form of filmmaking as it emerges in the late 20th Century China. With in-depth case studies written by a scholar who is also a filmmaker, this study is a welcome reassessment of the predominantly western-oriented scholarship on subjective/autobiographical/first person film. Tianqi Yu’s book is a major contribution to the field.’Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex‘My’ Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China’s post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual as an ever more important social figure in China, this mode of independent filmmaking and cultural practice has become increasingly significant. Combining the approach of cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis of selected films, this study examines the motivations, key aesthetic features and ethical tensions of presenting the self on camera, as well as the socio-political, cultural and technical conditions surrounding its practice. This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China’s van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China’s iGeneration (2014). She is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland.Cover image: On the other shore © YU Haibo 1988Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9821-9Barcode

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Understanding first person filmmaking in China as always already political, this study breaks new ground in considering the particularities of this personal form of filmmaking as it emerges in the late 20th Century China. With in-depth case studies written by a scholar who is also a filmmaker, this study is a welcome reassessment of the predominantly western-oriented scholarship on subjective/autobiographical/first person film. Tianqi Yu s book is a major contribution to the field. Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex My Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China s post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual as an ever more important social figure in China, this mode of independent filmmaking and cultural practice has become increasingly significant. Combining the approach of cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis of selected films, this study examines the motivations, key aesthetic features and ethical tensions of presenting the self on camera, as well as the socio-political, cultural and technical conditions surrounding its practice. This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China s van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China s iGeneration (2014). She is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland.Cover image: On the other shore © YU Haibo 1988Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9821-9Barcode

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Editore
Edinburgh University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1474474128
ISBN 13 
9781474474122
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
174
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non disponibile
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9780748698219: My Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China

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ISBN 10:  0748698213 ISBN 13:  9780748698219
Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2018
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